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(ModeL) W. v. BENNETTS. J. M. LEWIS & s. A. HATCH. BOTTLE STOPPER'AND APPLICATOR.

No. 442,743. Patented D60. 16, 1890.

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WILLIAM V. BENNETTS, JAMES MONROE LEWIS, AND SILAS A. IIATCII, OF BLOOMINGTON, VVISOONSIN.

BOTTLE-STOPPER AND APPLICATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 442,743, dated December 16, 1890.

Application filed April 4, 1890. Serial N0. 346,629- (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM V. BENNETTs, JAMES MONROE LEWIS, and SILAS A. HATCH, citizens of the United States, residing at Bloomington, county of Grant, and State of \Visconsin, have invented a new and useful Cork or Stopple and Applicator; and we do declare that the following is such full, clear, and exact description of the invention as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification,and in which Figures 1 and 2 are views from two different sides of our improved stopper. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the bottom of the stopper or applicator.

A designates our stopper, which is preferably made of india-rubber; but as material is not essential it may be made of cork, wood, or any other. suitable substance. Owing to one of the uses for which our stopper is designednamely, that of an applicator or brush-we find rubber to be the best material.

a and b designate ridges or elevations upon the bottom of the stopper, forming a corrugated or pitted surface, the pits or cavities c 0 being formed by the intersections of said ridges a and b.

Besides using the stopper A simply as a stopper for bottles, jugs, and other such vessels, we useit as an applicator or brush wherewith to apply fluid medicine or other medicine (whether fluid, pasty, or dry) to the horngerms or horn-buttons of calves and lambs for the purpose of stopping the growth of the horns on said animals. Hence our invention has the double function of a bottle-stopper andan applicator. The said cavities or pits to the horn-germs of animals, and the corrugated or roughened surface of the applicator adapts it to chafe the skin or the horn germ of the animal when on applying it the appli-- 45 cator is given a twisting or rotary motion or a side or sliding motion. The applicator thus serves to abrade the surface and at the same;

time to deposit the medicine or substance car ried in the cavities or pits thereof on the 5 abraded or chafed surface.

The elevations Ct and b are represented as. crossing each other at rightangles in parallel lines. One set of these lines of ridges might be drawn in concentric rings or circles and the other set might be drawn as radi of the circles, or the lines of ridges might be drawn at acute or obtuse angles, or in any'directioa whatever, so as simply to form proper cavi lties to hold the substance to be applied.

This applicator may be used not only to apply medicine to horn-germs, but to the skin a lVILLIAM V. BENNETTS.

J. MONROE LEWIS. SILAS A. HATCH.

In presence oflj. BRTLEY,

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